My leg still hurts from receiving the practice shot from Hilary. No sign of infection, will continue to monitor.

Hilary gave Lauren a shot for the first time last night. To make sure it didn't hurt, we put numbing cream on the site for an hour, but before you give the shot you have to clean the area. So of course, after Hil cleaned the area we couldn't tell exactly where the cream had been, we guessed wrong and Lauren cried. We're idiots. In the future, we're going to draw a circle and put the cream in the circle. We're learning.

No steroid rage episode since we've been home (knock on wood). We're thinking the episode only come when Lauren is super tired. Another side effect I forgot to mention is an increase appetite. Lauren can't seem to get enough food. We call her our little eating machine - strawberries, ice cream, spaghettio's, soup, and that's just an appetizer before dinner. We figure it couldn't hurt to beef her up now before she begins to lose her appetite when the heavy-duty chemo starts. Her face has gotten a lot more round and she has a good size pot belly. I told Hilary that Lauren is looking more and more like her everyday (for those of you that don't know, Hil is pregnant).

Lauren has an appointment today at the cancer clinic to check her blood level to make sure her white blood count is not too low.